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| author |  Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-08 18:23:13 -0400 |
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| committer | Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net> | 2011-03-08 18:23:13 -0400 |
| commit | d7b4c8372b3901e09a0268d55b0a567a878166f2 (patch) | |
| tree | 1d75befb084ff091f5fa99d7010d7f4bad922cb6 | |
| parent | 876f0c6fbce125b946aa37eb1c409d6030785d72 (diff) | |
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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn b/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn index 26f600be4..60f35eec8 100644 --- a/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn +++ b/doc/todo/support-non-utf8-locales.mdwn @@ -2,8 +2,9 @@ Currenty, git-annex forces output, particularly of filenames, in a utf-8 locale. Note that this does not mean it cannot be used with filenames in other -encodings. It just displays their names always converted to utf-8, which -may not look right when you have a non-utf8 locale. +encodings. git-annex is entirely encoding agnostic when it comes to +manipulating filenames. It just *displays* their names always converted to +utf-8, which may not look right when you have a non-utf8 locale. This had to be done to work around some bugs with haskell's handling of filename encodings. In particular, |